China hit a major benchmark this week when its population officially reached 1.3 billion people. It's a staggering figure, and yet demographers say China is actually a population-control success story. Just 30 years ago, Chinese families were having as many as five children. Now, the country's "one-child" policy has brought the birthrate so low that China's population is due within decades not only to peak, but to begin a decline.

And since I don't consider myself a Christian - definitely not in the way the fcuking Bible-bashing whackjobs back home that love this kind of scare would define one, anyway - then it ain't my problem anyway.

Besides, sterilizing us Latin types would probably be the second thing these people would do, after putting all the American Muslims in "resettlement camps."

It labours under this mistaken belief that influence comes with numerical superiority. The efficiency of the conversion of numbers into influence is only high in cases where the democracy is highly representative.

This not being the case in the UK, it seems likely that we'd just have a darker shade of disenfranchised underclass.

Birth rates are not a reliable tool for predicting future populations. We live longer and have significantly lower mortality rates so we need to renew our national population at a lower rate. As we all know from our own governments budgets you can present any statistic in whatever way you want.